Re: WANTED: Your photos of unusual animals
[Re: LT GREY]
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11/25/07 11:08 PM
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Where is the picture of Tsarvena? ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
Are you sure that picture of the "hairless rodent" isn't a Mountain Beaver, not a squirrel? Where is the long tail? Look up the Mountain Beaver on the web and compare it! LT do mountain beavers sposed to have fur?
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Re: WANTED: Your photos of unusual animals
[Re: Tsarevna]
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11/26/07 12:36 AM
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They aren't photographed often, usually being shy creatures. From what I've read, they could fit inside the space the size of a basket ball. do they have a tail like a beaver?
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Re: WANTED: Your photos of unusual animals
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11/26/07 12:42 AM
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They aren't photographed often, usually being shy creatures. From what I've read, they could fit inside the space the size of a basket ball. do they have a tail like a beaver? No it's not leathery, it's like a stubby rabbit's tail. These guys have no relation to beaver. They are rodents, but the most primitive of all rodents alive today. A living fossil. They don't have a fur value (Indians used to make robes out of them, and showed them off to Lewis and Clark) but today they are just considered garden pests. Timber industry hates them because they eat the newly planted seedlings. Supposedly they are worth their weight in a precious metal to taxidermists, who would sell them to natural history museums.
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